Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-02-08
2023-02-08[edit]
🏆 Wins[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Jan '22 edition
- Folks clamoring to use pipeline
- Dan & Ahmon jumping in to help devs
- Chad moved!
- Instance-wide runners!
- First non-us/non-ci repo deployed via GitLab Pipeline: https://docker-registry.wikimedia.org/repos/data-engineering/mediawiki-event-enrichment/tags/
- No more repos on diffusion!
- Kokkuri's python now!
- Buildkit upstream patch to make client connections more robust in case of loss
- Smooth wmf.22 train
- docker-pkg build --list \o/
🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions[edit]
- Some moby/buildkit stuff:
- Filter containers by regex in docker-autocompose
😶 Let's keep this empty[edit]
📅 Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
February 2023[edit]
- 9-10 Feb: Brennen (going to a hot spring, actual time off tbd pending whether I can get ahold of a starlink)
- 13–17 Feb: Antoine
- 20 Mon Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day
March 2023[edit]
- 17 Fri: Tyler (guessing, running https://www.madmooseevents.com/canyonlands-half-marathon on the 18th 😬)
- 23 & 24 Thu–Fri: Jaime
- 24 Fri: Jeena volunteering
🔥🚂 Train[edit]
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
- 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
- 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
- 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
- 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
- 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
- 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
- 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
Team discussions[edit]
Harbor[edit]
- Per: Draft: Install Harbor on the gitlab runner k8s cluster
- https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/123
- More discussion on that MR
Discussion[edit]
- Reservations about replacing reggie right now since we're close to opening it up
- Using reggie for a small use-case and have not have problems
- Harbor provides a lot more than that
- Are these reservations shared among the team?
- Goal with the patch was not to replace reggie *yet*
- Goal: get it installed in a way that was repeatable and the rest of the team could participate and keep it in an experimental state and continue iterating
- Maintenance: keep a couple extra containers on a k8s we're already running
- Spending time to replace something that exists vs. wrapping up other things
- Reggie does what we need vs. doing something experimental PM perspective: focus on our goal for the quarter
- RESOLUTION: Keep it in our toolbox and postpone working on it for now
Sprint planning[edit]
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1263ADOIF-PH-9stn9Nzev1S8Sq6TM6LSJFW6BJGdTpI/edit#
- some disucssion needed (I think) about:
- scaling buildkitd and some buildkitd discoveries we made just recently